• @library_napper
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    -41 year ago

    Nope, fuck cars. Tax carbon, give free public bus passes. Easy.

    • @Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      The closest bus to me is about a 1.5 hour walk, with the path options either being, the side of a 70 mph highway, or the side of 45 mph side roads (no sidewalks).

      The bus pass would just take up space in my wallet and nothing more.

      I work from home to reduce my car usage dramatically, and already pay annual taxes on the car itself as well as every gallon of gas (in top of standard sales tax) that goes into it. The car is 15 years old and gets over 30mpg.

      Your ‘easy’ solution requires uprooting people’s lives dramatically and is, dare I say it, an incredibly naive take on the real problems that the planet, nations, and individual people actually have.

      And before you say ‘move somewhere with people’ I do live where people are, I live in between two of the biggest cities in my state, moving closer to those cities requires a) a huge sum of liquid cash, and b) a huge increase in my cost of living.

      Think critically about the world you are in, have perspective about other people’s living situations, and have respect for your peers. Blanket solutions are historically ineffective.

      • mintyfrog
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        41 year ago

        They’re totally forgetting that people need to live where other people don’t. Farming. Solar fields. Forestry. Mining. Wind farms.

      • @library_napper
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        -21 year ago

        Thbk realistically about the world you’re in. Ban cars and buses will be everywhere.

        This isn’t a problem in poor countries.

        • mintyfrog
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          21 year ago

          In what poor country are cars banned?

          Funny how you respond to just this comment but not the others.

          What bus is going to run to bring farmers to massive farms, miles apart?

          • @library_napper
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            -11 year ago

            The busses that run between cities, like in most countries

            • mintyfrog
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              11 year ago

              And what about the places that aren’t between cities? Rural areas are larger than you think. You’re expecting people to walk 4 miles and wait 2 hours for a bus on a regular basis.

              • @library_napper
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                -11 year ago

                You can’t walk 4 miles? Grow up.

                I expect people to cycle 10 miles on a regular basis. these aren’t real problems that you’re describing. You’re just justifying the harm you’re causing the environment because you’re too lazy to make very minor efforts that most of the world does already.

    • mintyfrog
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      21 year ago

      Not everyone lives in cities, @fuckcars@lemmy.world